Read, Simon

Summary: "The sea had become a mass grave by 1941 as Hitler's four capital warships--Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Tirpitz, and Bismarck, the largest warship on the ocean--roamed the wind-swept waves, threatening the Allied war effort and sending thousands of men to theicy depths of the North Atlantic. Bristling with guns and steeled in heavy armor, these reapers of the sea could outrun and outgun any...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020

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Powell, Sarah.

Summary: "Make a plane, an oven, a car or even your own city inside this imaginative craft book where a cardboard box is not just a box"--back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press/Priddy Books 2014

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Summary: In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2018

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Aslan, Reza

Summary: Explores humanity's attempts to comprehend the divine by giving it human traits and emotions, and calls for a more expansive understanding of God to develop a more universal spirituality.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017

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Aslan, Reza.

Summary: Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first-century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor. Scores of Jewish prophets, preachers, and would-be messiahs wandered through the Holy Land, bearing messages from God. This was...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013

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Aslan, Reza

Summary: "The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy. As a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Howard Baskerville was aflame not only with the gospel of Jesus, but with the Wilsonian gospel that constitutional democracy is the birthright of all nations. Rather than become a small-town minister like his father in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022

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Summary: In February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common-law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts those who knew the Morgans. This feature documentary by filmmaker Kasper Collin is a love letter to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fisher Klingenstein Ventures, LLC 2016

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Summary: A former heavyweight boxing champion comes out of retirement to fight a 10 round exhibition bout against an opponent who is thirty years younger than he is.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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Simon, Sarah

Summary: "With an elegant spiral binding and layflat design, Modern Watercolor Botanicals features: Lessons with detailed instructions for 3 skill levels- beginner, intermediate, and advanced; Over 100 pieces of traceable artwork, so no drawing experience is required; Easy-to-understand diagrams, pictures, and instructions; Each lesson builds upon skills learned in the previous lesson; "Why Art?" essays...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Paige Tate & Co. 2019

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Sahai, Supriya

Summary: "This brand-new series highlights some of the major contributions women have made in the world of science. Did you know that the technology behind cell phones was based on an idea developed during World War II by the Hollywood star Heddy Lamar to prevent the enemy intercepting radio messages? The computer and other electronic devices have changed life dramatically over the last 70 years-and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022

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Summary: Secretly filmed in Iran by women and men who risked arrest. It is an immersive portrait of the world's most honored human rights activist and political prisoner, attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, and of Iran's remarkably resilient women's rights movement. In the courts and on the streets, Sotoudeh has long fought for the rights of women, children, religious minorities, journalists, and artists. In the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Raffi.

Summary: Presents the illustrated text to the song about the little white whale who swims wild and free.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1991

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Raffi.

Summary: In this song, two children imagine their mothers asking, "Did you ever see a goose kissing a moose, a fly wearing a tie, or llamas eating their pajamas down by the bay?"

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1990

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Raffi.

Summary: Animals and campers join together in the woods one evening and shake their sillies, clap their crazies, and yawn their sleepies out.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1990

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Summary: "This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas), Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Jesse Ed Davis, Robbie Robertson, and Randy Castillo, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World shows how these pioneering...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber Edu 2017

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Summary: Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Rama

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Publisher / Publication Date: Himalayan Institute Press 1996

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Raza, Azra

Summary: A world-class oncologist delivers a devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer, offering a searing account of how both medicine and society (mis)treats cancer, how people can do better, and why they must.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019

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Raza, Azra

Summary: We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet -- a few innovations notwithstanding -- a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was fifty years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost. In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019

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Sixx, Nikki

Summary: The rock-and-roll icon shares his inspirational journey from irrepressible Idaho farmboy to the man who formed Mötley Crüe., proving that you can overcome anything and achieve all of your goals, if only you put your mind to it.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021

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Crawford, Saffi.

Summary: In this delightfully addictive book, two skilled astrologers guide readers toward greater psychological insight, self-awareness, and a keen understanding of their unique positions in the universe.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 1998

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FIXX.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1983

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